Advance Your Art: From Artist To Creative Entrepreneur

Jade Leone Blackwater is a small business consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. Her purpose is to dig deep, get inspired, and bring back something awesome. Jade works side by side with business and product owners to whip operations, brands, marketing, and content into shape. She champions cross-team collaboration, strategic design thinking, and customer-focused innovation. Founder of Brainripples (2004), Jade has hammered out strategies and content for 60+ organizations, including 3 Square Blocks, Evolving Earth Foundation, Impact Capital, Noise w/o Sound LLC, Seabeck Systems LLC, City of Seattle Office of Economic Development, South Park Neighborhood Association, TrueBlue Inc., and White Center Community Development Association. She served on the Board of Directors at Pennwriters, Inc. (2006-2010), supporting local member activities and driving membership development. A Jill-of-All-Trades, Jade provides operations management, administration, customer service, technical support, technical documentation,